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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 1949.
QUAKE-STRICKEN CITY STARTS TO CLEAR WRECKAGE
Amato, Ecuador, August 10. ·
The Work goes on here, but the hurry is past.
trapped no longer cry out and the tons of stone cannot be removed in a day.
A long line of men at Ambato Cathedral are passing boulders hond to hand from a 20-foot pile that
the roof.
was once, the
HASTINGS SPEEDWAY
SUED
Hastings, August 10 Back in
EET MA QURT LIZ beth ordered that Hastings, on the South Coast of England, should be it place' of peace and quiel.
The pile, now covers the bodies of 60 le girls who died they were preparing to receive Holy Communion. With them is the body of the priest, struck as he read from the Bible.
Partially Paralysed Gives Birth
Houston, Texas,
August 10.
A British war brido, partially paralysed in both legs and one arni by pelle since July 19, gave birth today to a boy, Attendants inid that both the mother, 27-year-old Mrs. Dorothy Edge of Kirbyville, and the baby are doing nicely.
Mra. Edge is the mother three-year-old girl, of n Hazel, and a 19-month-old son, Michael. The new at- rival weighed seven pounds and 14 ottaren. Rector Edge, the father, is a saw- mill worker. He met his wife, the then Dorothy Phyllis Bradley of Lon- hlete Rasstationend in Britain during the war. -United Press.
Outside the Church, raw-hand- ed men are dumping boulders into a wheelbarrow. They also pick up a hut and a shoe, and a
might have been a human knee.
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the
Alove the allar on the rubble heap, the inscription "Sanctus“ is still visible, but beside it the It is now alleged that it has eternal dame has gone out. Over not been quiet since a speedway the Church entry wall a gure track was built here.
of Christ still stands. Beside it, is To Britons a speedwny
in the shell of the clock tower оп rinder truck
which motorin
the giant Cathedral, the hands cyclists
round several whizz nights a week to the accompani-have stopped at 2.10. That is the ment of cheers from mothers, moment Ambato will never for- fathers, teen-agers and the young-get. That was the moment
carthquake struck last Friday. sters,
Some
residents of Hastings Across the street in the Plaza have taken the speedway promu- ters to court charging that they is one of many homeless families.
breaking Good Queen Bess Their shelter is the altar-cloth, Charter.
They want the speedway closed sit in down so they can again their gardens among the roses in the peace and quietness that Queen Elizabeth ordained.
TO
On
A High Court judge will decide Thursday whether the speedway rematas at Hastings,— Associated Press,
Churchill Leaves A Message
Gardone, August 19. 'The British Minister
Aneurin Health, Mr.
Bevan. arrived here and found a book.
a bouquet and a message from
Epidemic Fears
To prevent disease, the Gov. ernment la considering burning the neighbouring towna. of Peilles, Pillaro and Patate,
There will not be much to burn. In Velileo not a house, not wall, not a doorway, not a cor- nerstone, not a single stick standa above the 10-foot heap of tiles, bricks, boulders and concrete,
Survivors rummage through the ruins, sure searching for their personal belongings. But most are looking for their relo- tives and friends-people who le buried in the rubble, some dead and
still alive. The roads in the Ambato valley are clogged. The refugers аге hungry, An American pilos gave i
his old Parliamentary foe, Me. sandwich to an oki women and Winston Churchill.
The message, left at the Grand
#
she sobbed. Only The country ver-the people will work it.
Hotel where the former British But the cities are dead-United Prime Minister and his wife spent | Press.
a week's holiday, expressed regret that a personal meeting was Im- possible.
Mr. Churchill left on Tuesday! for Strasbourg.
Mr. Bevan, accompanied by his wife, Miss Jennie Lee, and friends, motored here from Bolzano op n combined hollday and business visit to Italy.
Mr. Bevan has inspected clintes numerous public health and hospitals and conferred with numerous Italian health officials. The Bevans are due to leave later today for Varese. Associat- ed Press.
NY Swelters In Heat Wave
New York, August 10. The temperature soared to new
Chinese Deported By Pl
Manila, August 11.
Five Chinese were departed to China late yesterday aboard the me Tiendano after the Supreme Court had refused to grant their petition for temporary suspen sion of the Justice Department's order for their deportation.
were
The five men, formerly, achool
Batangas, teachers in charged with having engaged in Communistic activities, including sid to the Huks.
They will presumably be landed at Amoy. The deportees are Lao
Ping
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authorities Hong Kong, but the said no transportation was avall-
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of the year. The mercury shot up Kong Government might not be
to 08.4, which also made it the willing to receive them-United hottest August 10 un record.
Pross.
degress
At La Guardia fold, the ther- momator registered
while at Newwark, N. „J., it was
101.
Washington, August 10. Russian and American experts here today the return the United
For the second straight day, started negotiations Mayor William O'Dwyer sent for
non-essential New York munici-States of three ice-breakers and pal workers home early in the 28 frigates lent to Russia during
afternoon.-United Press.
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SUICIDE BY ELECTROCUTION
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GREECE ACCUSED ATTACKING ALBANIA
London, August 10.
Albania reported today it has repulsed an attempted
invasion by Greece.
Two communiques from the Ministry of Armed Forces, broadcast by the official Albanian Telegraph Agency from Tirana, charged that Greek artillery fired thousands of rounds into Albania and Greek planes dropped bombs on Albanian territory.
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Earlier, Radio Tirana had said land fighting was raging 30-mile front along the Greco- Albanian border.
The communiques sald most of the Greek "provocations" were In the Bozhigrom village area of the border, opposite the Grammos mountains where Greek
munist guerillas.
Array
The Green-Albanian frontier is so rugged in the Grammos arco that it is marked mostly by sign posis. The few villages on the frontler are sparsely populated.
ATHENS CLAIMING SUCCESS
Athens, August 10.
The Greek Army claimed to- day, to have captured Import- ant heights in its Grammos of- fensive but admitted suffering casualties the the highest toll of have since early March when rebels have sacked and pillaged Naoussa.
When previous offensive Against the guerillas in
mountain Grammos patered out, the Greaka charged that the rebele acap. ed Into Albania to reform for further sorties.
Radio Moscow sold that the "Royallst Fascist foreen" of the
ing heavy losses in the fighting with the guerillas.
The Greek Embassy in Lon said that Radio Tirana, every day for more than a week, had been charging the Greek forces with violating the Albanian fron- tier.
The Greeks dismissed
propaganda, the possibility
The invasion charge followed closely the launching of an offen- Mombasa, August 10. Mukut Narata Sherma, 35, asive by the Greek Army against
guerilias ports as Punjabi India, committed sul- the Greek Communist cide in his hotel room here by entrenched In the Grammos ceded attaching the electric wiring to mountains Just South of Albania, border clashes,
cloth his neck, placing a damp
over his head and turning on the light switch.
The Greek Government cald
on
The Army communique report- ed #2 soldiers killed, 247 wounded and 14 missing, but claimed to have inflcted
heavy lossES the Grammos rebels, killing 110
Sinc
got the
the major attack
under way five days ago, Army hos suffered 612 casualties compared with 360 by the guerillas.
Observers anld that the Army's wounded casualties were largely due to extensive minefields int around the rebel fortified heights In the mountains.
the re-
The air force carried out ex- but cor-
tensive
the ntincks throughout of some aren.-Associated Press.
The first Albanian communi- morning, salc!
the rebels hold a triangle based que, issued this on the Albanian frontier and one officer and three soldiers were injured in Greek air raids. of the pointing into North West Greece, Sharma, an employee Kenya Government's Statistical) It has charged repeatedly tha The alleged invasion attempt was omée In Nairobi, was on holiday the rebels are supplied and rein- made on Sunday, the radio said.
-United Press. forced through Albania. here.-Reuter.
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London. August 10, U Maung, the Burmese Foreign Minister, said in London tonight that he does not belleve there will be any immediate formation an Asian defence Kroup against Communism.-Reuter,
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